great sketches!! and nice story too … keep up ! 
let’s see some models !
Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Mathias Verhasselt
Lemog
#124
hmmmm… I like a lot your style… I saw your first sketch… I found that really interesting… and now, I see the latest… is wonderfull… you’ve a great imagination and artist talent exceptional… I’m really impatient to see the transposition of these incredible drafts, in models 3d je pense que ça va être du pur bonheur pour les yeux ! :buttrock:
ninox
#125
Like the others I found your sketches really good, the latest one is… very nice. I am really impatient to see how you will transpose that in 3d.
mv1
#126
As I’m going to do a 3d layout for my final composition sketch, I did a low poly design of the “whale”, which will also serve as base for high poly versions. the design has a bit evolved. That thing is very big (500-800 kms long), the belly is full of gazes from jupiter that have, during the trip, evolved into organic molecules and organisms, who have grown and learned, while going up. The teal zone is the zone where the higher level organisms are living. In orange, in front, that will be more detailed, fractal kind of arboresences, that in their tips take the fabric of the chaotic quantum void to weave an organised mesh on which the whale can “crawl” with the organs in its tail. The orange lines represent the organised universe fabric… which after a very short time returns to its chaotic state.
mv1
#127
Thanks a lot everybody, I’m glad you like the concepts. Your input is very much appreciated.
terraarc
#129
Weird looking ship with quite a story behind! I find the design somewhat strange but I have a filing it will turn out great 
Waiting for more
Pufferfish
#130
Now THAT is a seriously HUGE “spaceship”. Will be a challenge itself to bring the scale visible. 500-800km gives you a alot of space for details. Great, can’t wait to see the final one.
-pfish
mv1
#131
thanks guys. It’s not a spaceship… it’s an animal 
.I tried to put in the design all the functions he has. Gaz carrying/evolving : big belly . Vestigial aerodynamic form (used during the growth in jupiter) : the compressed whale body on the top/fins . Mode of spatial propulsion: the orange things/ tail .
About the mode of propulsion : an analogy is, think some one wants to walk on water, he freezes the water in front of him to do so, just in front of him, a bit further at each step, and then behind him, the ice melts again. Just here, water is the chaos of quantum void, and ice is an organised “crystal” of quantum universe.
I have still a bit to work on the overall design, and then the detailing will make more sense
Pufferfish : hehe yes that’s quite big. Most of that scale effect will be understood since the foreground will be inside the teal part in the diagram, looking forward.
JamesMK
#132
That looks like the starting point of a very accurate workflow… rough volume and colours like that. The overall volume feels pretty good, maybe the belly should extend backwards a bit further still, making the tail segment proportionally shorter, because the sideview looks to me a little bit more like a fish fry than a whale, proportionally speaking.
The background story gets better by the minute as these Hawkingesque implications of yours get explained.
Executive summary: Cool schtuff
mv1
#133
thanks James. Yeah it’s important to start with rough 3d designs, it makes you gain time in the end.
I should stop calling it a whale cause it’s not a whale 
… actually it has more like a dolphinesque head now. But you’re maybe right about the belly, it might be more harmonic having it continue further back, but I want really to have this disproportionned sphere, to show it’s full of stuff, almost on the edge of cracking. I will try different proportions later though.
JamesMK
#134
OK, I see what you’re getting at… it’s almost like a cosmic balloon of sorts… almost bursting from the pressure of the gassy contents. Solid plan. And a good reason to model the largest pill for indigestion known to man Waahaa! er… carry on.
jddog
#135
je…je…je suis… heee… biiiin… mais c’est que ça… c’est… enfin…
just I don’t have good words to really express myself. I found this work exremely interesting, unique dans son genre… I’m really curious to follow your progress. Untl now no crits… impateint to thee the suite !
:applause: et courage…
jdd
PS hha Paris… j’aime Paris… :love:
DimitrisLiatsos
#136
indeed beautifull work… i like the proccess u keep in this one…blocking out the model and then working piece by piece, very nice :bounce: …bubble Nut.
fellah
#137
“I should stop calling it a whale cause it’s not a whale”
sure then why have you been calling it a whale so far… ?
it’s like if I would make a fish, and call it a bird… :rolleyes:
good to see some modeling though. hm, but I’m still not sure you will be able to make the girl as pretty in 3d as u did in 2d… if you start at all will say :wise:
mv1
#138
Jamesfluff : heh yeah, right, I’d better not be near one if they have some gastrointestinal troubles. Thanks
jddog : thanks a lot! I’m glad you like it
DimitrisLiatsnuts: thanks!
fellah : :curious: :rolleyes:
more to come soon